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“…Thune (R-SD) said Thursday he was “interested” in President Donald Trump’s renewed push for a $350 billion military funding package using only Republican votes but stopped short of committing to its passage before Democrats take control of Congress in…”

“…otos of the feisty, fluffy red panda here. - ⚡🌬️ The wind permitting saga continues, as the Trump administration is now allowing two onshore projects to advance, in an apparent effort to ease resistance among Senate Democrats to the bipartisan permitting…”

“In Ecuador, Noboa announced plans to cut $1 billion in government spending and deployed the military against criminal gangs, including inside prisons.”

“Western Libya’s kleptocrat Abdul Hamid Dbeibah hypocritically accused Aqila Saleh and Belgassim Haftar of parallel spending — citing 59 billion dinars in extra-budgetary disbursements — immediately after defending its own 123 billion dinar outlays.”

“While it has yet to finalize a $14 billion arms deal with Taiwan, the Trump administration is delivering a needed boost to deterrence against China.”

“Out of an annual federal budget of roughly $5.52 trillion, the $3.3 billion allocated annually to Israel through Foreign Military Financing receives a remarkably disproportionate share of political and media attention.”

“Spending capital without cementing hard military alliances is a complacent peacetime habit — that is why the West is consistently losing modern wars.”

“The Congressional Budget Office calls it an “armed conflict” and estimates that military operations have cost taxpayers about $38 billion through Aug. 1.”

“Russia does not publish its full military spending.”

“We were spending American treasure trying to construct institutions whose foundations were rotten.”

“Chief among those items are “must-pass” bills to prevent a government shutdown, including reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the annual military policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act.”

“Rethinking the Navy and the air The most interesting part of Mark’s argument centers on naval warfare and military spending.”